29-May-2005 -- The fourth visit already ! We left from Paris one week ago to reach Marseille following the 4th meridian: around 11 days, 1100km and 14000 m of positive height. Five confluence points are planned during this trip.
The day before yesterday we were at 46N 4E and now we are in Lantriac in Haute-Loire not far from Le Puy en Velay.

This point has a special position because he is located in the garden of a private house. Fortunately this morning, the owner, an old lady, is here.
She tells us that some people have already visited her to look for this sort of “satellite point”. Although it seems to be very mysterious for her, she accepts us to walk around in her garden with our GPS.

While Johann and me are looking for the point, Julien try to explain roughly the aim of the DCP to her, talking about terrestrial coordinates, magic action of satellites… (next visitors may give her more details about WGS84 and the geoide and she’ll soon be a specialist of GPS!). We finally find the point right in the middle of the vegetable plot, between leeks and lettuces ! After taking the traditional pictures, we thank the lady for her understanding welcome… She’s lucky to have a CP in her garden but she’s not really aware of it !

Then we keep going on the daily stage, which is not really easy: Mount Mézenc and Mount Gerbier de Jonc, where for once we let our (beloved!) bikes to walk a little: it’s more light and it’s nice to stop pedaling for a while!